Sports Watch 1-20-14

Sports to keep an eye on

By Tim Clinton, Sports Editor

01/20/2014

ProsSeahawks
It's Super Bowl time for the Seattle Seahawks!
After earning their way with a wild 23-17 National Football Conference championship win over the San Francisco 49ers, the Seahawks will play the American Football Conference champion Denver Broncos in the Big Game with a 3:30 p.m. kickoff on Sunday, Feb. 2.
The action takes place at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and will be shown on KCPQ-TV Channel 13.

Thunderbirds
The Seattle Thunderbirds will host Moose Jaw for 7:05 p.m. Western Hockey League action at Showare Center in Kent on Tuesday before visiting the Tri-City Americans at the same time Friday.
Then it's back to Showare to play Everett at 7:05 p.m. Saturday and Kelowna at 5:05 p.m. Sunday.

CollegesMen's basketball
The University of Washington Huskies will host Oregon for an 8 p.m. game Thursday before entertaining Oregon State at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Thursday's game will be shown on Fox Sports 1 and Saturday's on the Pac-12 network.
Washington State University, meanwhile, will be at home in Pullman playing Oregon State at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Oregon at 4 p.m. Sunday in games carried on Pac-12.
Seattle University is at Grand Canyon for a 6 p.m. game Saturday and Gonzaga goes to San Diego at 7 p.m. Thursday and Brigham Young University at 7 p.m. Saturday.
Thursday's Gonzaga game can be seen on ESPNU and Saturday's on ESPN2.
Seattle Pacific University is at Montana State in Billings for a 6:30 p.m. game Saturday.

Women's basketball
Friday the University of Washington women's basketball team will visit Oregon State University for a 6 p.m. game Friday and drop in on Oregon for a 12 p.m. game Sunday, with both games on the Pac-12 network.
The Washington State University Cougars are at Oregon at 7 p.m. Friday and at Oregon State at 2 p.m. Sunday, with Gonzaga at Loyola Marymount at 7 p.m. Thursday and at Pepperdine at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Seattle University will host Grand Canyon at 4 p.m. Saturday, with Seattle Pacific University entertaining Western Oregon at 7 p.m. Thursday and Saint Martin's University of Lacey at 7 p.m. Saturday.

High schoolsBoys basketball
West Seattle will be at home for 7:30 p.m. action against Cleveland on Tuesday and Chief Sealth entertains Franklin at the same time.
Evergreen hosts Renton at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Chief Sealth has an 8 p.m. home game scheduled for Friday against perennial power Rainier Beach as West Seattle travels to Ingraham.

Girls basketball
Chief Sealth entertains Franklin for a 7:30 p.m. game Wednesday and West Seattle hosts Cleveland at the same starting time.
Evergreen, meanwhile, will be at Renton at 7 p.m.
Friday's schedule has Chief Sealth hosting Rainier Beach and West Seattle at Ingraham at 6:15 p.m.
Evergreen goes to Lindbergh at the same time.

Gymnastics
Evergreen will be at Highline with Hazen for a 7 p.m. meet Tuesday and Chief Sealth goes to Nathan Hale for 4 p.m. action Friday.

Wrestling
Evergreen/Tyee is at Highline for 7 p.m. action Thursday, with Chief Sealth at Eastside Catholic and West Seattle at Blanchet for 6:30 p.m. matches that day.

Swimming
Hazen drops in on Evergreen/Tyee/Highline at 3 p.m. Thursday at the Evergreen pool, then West Seattle hosts Bainbridge at 3:30 p.m. Friday as Chief Sealth goes to Franklin.

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